UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Steaua Bucureşti FC Twente Matchday 7 - Round of 32, first leg National Arena, Bucharest Thursday 16 February 2012 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Team facts.........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................7 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................9 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................13 Match officials..................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................18 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Twente Thursday 16 February 2012 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Arena, Bucharest Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/12/09 GS FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Twente 1-1 Bucharest Kapetanos 18; Stam 35 01/10/09 GS FC Twente - FC Steaua Bucureşti 0-0 Enschede Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Steaua Bucureşti 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 FC Twente 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 FC Steaua Bucureşti - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/10 GS FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Utrecht 3-1 Bucharest Gardoş 29, Stancu 52, 53; Mertens 33 21/10/10 GS FC Utrecht - FC Steaua Bucureşti 1-1 Utrecht Duplan 60; Schut 75(og) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/02/06 R32 FC Steaua Bucureşti - sc Heerenveen 0-1 Bucharest agg: 3-2 15/02/06 R32 sc Heerenveen - FC Steaua Bucureşti 1-3 Heerenveen Bruggink 24; Dică 29, Goian 76, Paraschiv 78 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/89 R2 PSV Eindhoven - FC Steaua Bucureşti 5-1 Eindhoven Ellerman 22, 64, Romário 46, 49, 86; agg: 5-2 Lăcătuş 17 18/10/89 R2 FC Steaua Bucureşti - PSV Eindhoven 1-0 Bucharest Lăcătuş 16 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/70 R2 FC Steaua Bucureşti - PSV Eindhoven 0-3 Bucharest Veenstra 45, 53, van der Kuylen 79 agg: 0-7 21/10/70 R2 PSV Eindhoven - FC Steaua Bucureşti 4-0 Eindhoven Veenstra 32, Devrindt 67, 87, Mulders 68 FC Twente - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/08/11 QR3 FC Vaslui - FC Twente 0-0 Piatra Neamt agg: 0-2 26/07/11 QR3 FC Twente - FC Vaslui 2-0 Arnhem Janko 34(p), 57 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Steaua Bucureşti 5 2 1 2 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 10 3 3 4 10 17 FC Twente 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 3 1 Last updated 14/02/12 16:07:55CET 2 Previous meetings FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Twente Thursday 16 February 2012 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Arena, Bucharest Match background FC Steaua Bucureşti will look to maintain their dream of playing in the UEFA Europa League final at their own stadium as they meet FC Twente in the round of 32. Previous meetings • The sides met in the group stage of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League, Mihai Stoichiţă's Steaua holding Steve McClaren's Twente 0-0 in Enschede and 1-1 in Bucharest. • The teams in Bucharest on 17 December 2009 were: Steaua: Zapata, Golański (Ninu 63), Rada, Tănase, Székely (Ochiroşii 78), Kapetanos, Toja, Nicoliţă, Ghionea, Bicfalvi (Moreno 73), Emeghara. Twente: Boschker, Kuiper, Wisgerhof, Brama, Stam, Nkufo, Perez, Heubach (Rajković 74), Stoch, Tioté (Akram 76), Ruiz (Parker 62). Match background • Steaua's record against Dutch opponents is W3 D3 L4 (W2 D1 L2 at home). They met another Dutch side, sc Heerenveen, at this stage of the 2005/06 UEFA Cup, winning 3-2 on aggregate. • Steaua coach Ilie Stan will not have fond memories of the club's 1989/90 European Champion Clubs' Cup second-round tie against PSV Eindhoven; an unused substitute in Steaua's 1-0 home win, he appeared for the final 20 minutes of the subsequent 5-1 defeat in Eindhoven. • Twente's record in four games against Romanian sides reads W1 D3 L0 (W0 D2 L0 in Romania). • The Tukkers eliminated Romania's FC Vaslui in this season's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, winning 2-0 in Arnhem and drawing 0-0 in Piatra Neamt. • Twente are unbeaten in five European home games – four wins and a draw – since losing to Villarreal CF in last season's UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. • Twente are in the round of 32 for a fourth successive season. They lost to Olympique de Marseille on penalties in 2008/09 and SV Werder Bremen the following season, but broke their duck last term by eliminating FC Rubin Kazan. • Steaua have gone eleven games without a European away win since beating Saint Patrick's Athletic FC 2-1 in Dublin in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League play-offs. • Steaua last featured in the round of 32 in 2006/07, bowing out to Sevilla FC. They had made it through the same round in the previous two seasons, beating Valencia CF and Heerenveen respectively. Team facts • Bucharest's National Arena stages the 9 May final and Steaua are looking to become the third side to contest the showpiece at their home stadium since the UEFA Cup final became a single match in 1997/98. Feyenoord won the 2001/02 final at Rotterdam's De Kuip, beating Borussia Dortmund, but Sporting Clube de Portugal lost the 2004/05 decider to PFC CSKA Moskva at their Estádio José Alvalade. • Ilie Stan's men received four red cards in the group stage, more than any other side. • Half of Twente's 14 group stage goals came between minutes 31 and 45. • Steaua coach Stan, who replaced Roni Levy after matchday two, was a midfielder with the club from 1987 to 1995 and in 1997. Stan was briefly Romania assistant coach in 2002 and 2004, and led FC Victoria Brăneşti to Romania's top flight with successive promotions before resigning in April 2011. • After Co Adriaanse's dismissal as Twente coach in January, Steve McClaren returned to take the reins for a second time. The former Middlesbrough FC, England and VfL Wolfsburg boss led the club to the 2009/10 Dutch title – the first in their history. • McClaren's Middlesbrough overcame Steaua in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup semi-finals, losing 1-0 away before coming from 2-0 down in the home leg to win 4-2. Round of 16 • The winners take on the victors of the FC Viktoria Plzeň v FC Schalke 04 tie in the round of 16 on 8 and 15 March, playing the first leg at home. • Steaua have never met Plzeň but faced Schalke in this season's group stage. They drew in Romania but lost 2-1 in Gelsenkirchen, Raul Rusescu scoring their goal. Last updated 14/02/12 16:07:55CET 3 Match background FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Twente Thursday 16 February 2012 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Arena, Bucharest • Twente have never met Plzeň either, but took on Schalke in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage, winning 2-1 at home against a side coached by their former boss Fred Rutten. Last updated 14/02/12 16:07:55CET 4 Match background FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC Twente Thursday 16 February 2012 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Arena, Bucharest Team facts FC Steaua Bucureşti Formed: 1947 Nickname: Militarii (Army Men) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup (1): 1986, (1989) • UEFA Super Cup (1): 1986 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 23 (2006), Romanian Cup: 21 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: group stage 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: UEFA Champions League group stage 2007/08: UEFA Champions League group stage 2006/07: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2005/06: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2004/05: round of 16 2003/04: second round 2002/03: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2001/02: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Steaua v BSC Young Boys 03/10/79, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-5: AC Sparta Praha v Steaua 07/09/88, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: FC Steaua Bucureşti v Real Madrid CF 17/10/06, UEFA Champions League group stage 0-3 on four occasions, most recently v Olympique Lyonnais 26/09/06, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 on three occasions, most recently v Maccabi Haifa FC 20/10/11, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Cup/Europa League • Biggest home win 4-0: Steaua v RC Lens 20/10/05, group stage • Biggest